A week ago tonight I was sitting in the emergency room of our local hospital with my 95 year old Mom who was having trouble breathing. Fortunately the capable staff had her breathing more comfortably pretty quickly and diagnosed a little less quickly. In addition to being 95 and having heart problems she had a bacterial infection. I brought her home from the hospital on Saturday afternoon. She is very slowly gaining strength but I am predicting that it will be weeks before she has bounced back enough to move around the house without needing help from me or someone else.
So my plans to spend December blogging about our German family tradition of baking dozens of different kinds of cookies for Christmas have dashed into the ether faster than Donner and Blitzen.
In the best of all December dreams I will have some spare time to post a recipe or two. There will be other Christmas seasons for me to bake, photograph, and write recipes but I may not get another Christmas to share with my Mom so I am going to dedicate my time to her and my family this December.
If I don’t get another post in before the 25th, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
